Learning Quotes

Thomas jefferson, letter to his cousin john garland jefferson, june 11, 1790 - health is worth more than learning....
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parke
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
Leonard Bernstein
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
Theodore Roosevelt
Alan perlis - it is against the grain of modern education to...
Stobaeus - how vain is learning unless intelligence go with...
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Lord Byron
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fulle
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S. Wilson
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams, 1780
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.
Saadi, On the Duties of Society
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Rowen
It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
Persian Prove
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
John Dewey
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted W. Engstrom
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think.
S. Leonard Rubenstein, Pennsylvania State University, Chairman of the English Department, classroom lecture 1980
If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.
Carl R. Rogers
One of the things about being a grown - Up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
Antonin Scalia
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli